Hurdle and vaulting standard



G. E. PULLIAM.

HURDLE AND VAULTING STANDARD.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.3. 1920.

1,388 ,82 1 Patented 23, 1921.

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ATTORNEY. I

UNITED, STATES GEORGE E. PULLIAM, or Molina." VERNON, ILLINOIS.

nnnnrn AND VAULTIN'G STANDARD.

Specification of Letters latent. Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

Application filed August 3, 1920. Serial No. 401,053.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ELMER PUL- LIAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Jefferson and State of Illinois, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Hurdle and Vaulting Standard, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined vaulting and high jumping standard of the adjustable type.

The object of the invention is to provide a standard of this character which may be quickly and easily adjustedto support the crossbar at different heightsg'the construc tion of which is cheap, and in which the jumping rope or cross bar'may be conveniently replaced after it has once been dislocated.

Another object is to provide a standard of this character equipped with a combined bar support and gage for jumping and light exercises.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown andv described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustra-' tive of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 represents a front elevation with parts broken out of a standard constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view taken from the opposite face'of the standard. I Fig. 3 is a side. elevation thereof, and,

Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken on the line H of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail side elevation of the sliding member.

.In the embodiment illustrated a supporting base 1 is shown which is constructed of two members 2 and 3 composed of two section and the section 7 is correspondingly shaped to fit and slide therein. The base is preferably constructed of heavy material while the standard sections are made of light timber preferably ofcypress or red wood. As shown thehollow section 6 is composed of two fiat face members 8 and 9 with slde strips 10 arranged between them at their side edges to form spacers and thus provide the hollow interior thereof to receive the sliding section 7. The outer faces of the face members 8 and 9 are divided into lnches, feet, and fractions of an inch, one s de being intended for use for measuring vaulting heights while the other side is designed for use in high jumping. Arranged in each of these face members'8 and 9 are a plurality of longitudinally spaced alined sockets 11 which are designed to receive a pm presently to be described.

The sliding inner section 7 has a flexible element 12 secured to one end therof a staple 13 being preferably provided for this purpose. This element or cable 12 may be composed of any suitable non-stretchable wear resisting material preferably of piano wlre and it may be of any desired length, a pin 14 being carried by its free end and adapted to engage one of the apertures 11 in the standard section 6 for holding the sliding section 7 in adjusted position. This cable 12 lies in a groove formed in one face of member 7, (see Fig. 4:) to permit said member 7 to slide freely in member 6 without binding. A laterally extending pin 15 projects from the upper end of the sliding section 7 and is designed to form a support for a cross bar when the standard is used for high jumping it being of course understood that two of these standards are used to support such a bar. This pin 15 may serve as a rest for the cross bar or it may be inserted in a socket of the cross bar so as to permit said bar to be readily knocked down and yet held against accidental disengagement such as might occur by a gust of wind if it were not properly connected.

A roller or pulley 16 is mounted in the upper end of the standard section '6 and is designed to receive the wire or cable 12 and to guide said cable when a pull is exerted thereon for raising and lowering section, 7.

From the above description it will be obvious that when the standard is in the position shown in Fig. 1 and it is desired to lengthen it the pin 14 is disengaged from the socket 11 in which it is mounted and a pull exerted thereon which causes the section 7 to move upwardly in section 6. After this section has been raised to the desired extent the pin 14 is inserted in the socket opposite on the standard section 6 and thus section 7 will be held in adjusted position.

From the above description it will be ob vious that a standard as herein shown and described will be simple and cheap to manufacture and yet may be easily and quickly adjusted to meet varying conditions.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawings and set forth in the specification, but it will be un derstood that any modifications within the scope of the claims may be made in the con struction without departin from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

hat I claim is:

1. In a standard of the class described two telescopicallyengaged members, a pul ley carried by the fixed member, and a flexible element secured to the inner end of the slidable member and passed over said pulley to efi'ect movement of said sliding member in one direction by a pull exerted on the free end of said element, a pin carried by said flexible element, and a plurality of longitudinally spaced sockets carried by the 'fix'ed member said pin being insertible in one of. said sockets to hold the sliding mem her in adjusted position against the force of its weight. i

2. A standard of the class described c0m' prising a supporting base, a hollow fixed standard rising therefrom, a pulley mounted in the upper end of said standard and the opposed faces of said standard provided with a plurality of sockets, an extension member mounted to slide in said hollow standard and having a flexible element secured to the lower end thereof and passed up over said pulley, one of said members having a groove to receive said element and permit the free movement of the sliding member, the sliding member being provided with crossbar supporting means. I

In testimony whereof, I aiiix my signature hereto.

GEORGE E. PULLIAM. 

